This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dragonmaster49 Surnames: Hendricks Korner Kerner Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.northumberland/68.2087.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am a descendant of the Hendricks line from PA. I thought you might want this citation: - Source Citation - Northumberland County Will Book 1, page 311: ^ Jacob Hendricks of Mohantango Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, yeoman, signed: 17 Dec 1803; proved: 4 Feb 1804. ^ "I, Jacob Hendricks, ....hereby bequeath to my beloved wife Ursilla [abstracts call her Priscilla] during her widowhood. She is to have 10 or 11 acres, adjoining Levi's [Levy's?] land, vacant land and other land of mine, of which I sold 100 acres for 425 pounds to my son-in-law Andrew Kerner. It is to be at the lower end...and taking in the little field of about 4 acres and the rest to be woodland. She is to have ...my best bed, iron pot, pewter spoons and platters, pipe stove and pipes, a cow, table, chair, interest on 100 pounds due in April 1810. All my children, under age, are ordered to work for their mother and maintain her... ^ Out of the 425 pounds Andrew Kerner owes for the 100 acre farm, he is to pay the following: - 100 pounds by the 1st of April next, toward a debt owed my brother LEONARD HENDRICK. -   20 pounds to John Rife (Reiff?), before 1 April 1809 - 100 pounds, which sum is to remain unpaid during the widowhood of my wife, and the interest for her          mainte- 225 pounds to be paid in 9 yearly installments: -- the first of which is 25 pounds, payable 1 Apr 1810 and the last on 1 Apr 1818 unto my 6 sons: Joseph, Jesse, Ephraim, Isaac, Andrew and Abraham The sum of 165 pounds out of the above 225 pounds  to be divided equally -- To my 4 daughters: Sara Kerner, Janet Neitz, Nancy Hendricks and Mergaret Hendricks share alike all the above legacies. ^ And after the death of my beloved wife Ursula unto my 5 children [by my first wife]: Henry, Jacob, John, Abigail Gerl and Susanna Frantz, each the sum of 5 pounds. And the remainder, I give unto the ten children by my second wife to share equally. Executors are to be wife Ursulla and son Joseph Hendricks. Signed 17 Dec 1803. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.